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In this month's Message from the Executive Director, Donna S. Collins shares that there's a new date circled in red on the calendar—the Ohio Arts Council’s most tenured employee, Artist Programs and Percent for Art Director Ken Emerick, will retire in December and leave public service after a very successful 35-year career.

From top-notch concerts bringing in the biggest names from the live music capital of the world to local arts education programming that spotlights talent that is as rich as the Northwest Ohio topsoil, Archbold is set on becoming a mecca for music-lovers.

Ohio Poet Laureate Dave Lucas writes about how poetry becomes pleasurable when we stop worrying that something is hidden. We make meanings together, he says, and the poem can be the place where we meet.

Featuring the work of nine Ohio artists chosen by Ohio First Lady Karen W. Kasich with the assistance of the Ohio Arts Council, the exhibition serves to recognize the talented African-American artists living and working throughout the state and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance.